Cats are one of our trustiest companions, but the story of how the went from wild cats to mild cats is more complicated than you'd think. For the first few thousands of years of the cat-human partnership, humans did very little breeding. So how did this shy hunter made its way into our homes? How did we domesticate the cat? Or was it really the cat who domesticate us?
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00:00 Did Cats Actually Domesticate Us?
01:19 Meet the African wildcat
02:23 Egyptian domestication myth
03:21 Farming revolution & rodent problem
04:46 Domestication differences: dogs vs cats
06:16 The power of cuteness
07:15 Meowing and purring – human manipulation
08:09 Cats in Ancient Egypt – worship & Bastet
09:20 Dark side – cat mummies and rituals
10:24 Emergence of cat breeds (Siamese)
13:00 Modern domestic cats vs wild cats
13:52 Cat hybrids – Bengals & others
15:06 Cats as invasive predators
16:04 Ecological damage & conservation efforts
17:02 New genetic research on domestication
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Examining the nature of the beast.
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